Julian-Gregorian calendar questions

[John Dunn]

The Orthodox Easter always falls on a Sunday according to the Gregorian
calendar.  The days of the week stay the same because the issue which
causes the discrepancy (whether or not years ending in -00 are leap years)
does not affect the cycle of succession of days of week: Monday will follow
Sunday (alas) whether you call it 29 February or 1 March.  The gap will
increase to 14 days on 29 February/14 March 2100 (if my arithmetic is
correct), since 2100 is a leap year in the Julian calendar, but not in the
Gregorian calendar.  The gap did not increase in 2000, since that was a
leap year in both calendars.

Incidentally, I noticed around the turn of the year that some circles in
Russia consider the Julian calendar more accurate than the Gregorian.  For
more see:

http://alebedev.narod.ru/lib/lib34.html

John Dunn.


>A seemingly simple question-- is the answer simple?
>
 But here is my
>question, were the days of the week the same in the Russian Empire
>and Europe?  If, for example, October 18, 1905 (New Style) fell on a
>Wednesday, was October 5 (Old Style) also a Wednesday?
>
>This leads to the second question:  one of these days the "gap"
>between Julian and Gregorian calendars will increase to 14 days.
>Does anyone know when that will happen (it supposedly increases a day
>every century or so)?  When this does occur, what will happen to
>relative days of week?
>--
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